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Date:      Sun, 09 Jul 2000 18:41:02 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        John Johnson <ioann_j@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Accessing FreeBSD Gateway from Another FreeBSD Machine
Message-ID:  <396929AE.42D8F815@3-cities.com>
References:  <20000710001340.5758.qmail@web4103.mail.yahoo.com>

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John Johnson wrote:
> 
> I've built a FreeBSD machine which I am using as a
> gateway and firewall. I have no problem pinging the
> gateway machine and accessing the Web from a Windows
> 2000 laptop which I have sitting behind the firewall,
> but I am unable to do either from a second FreeBSD
> box, which also sits behind the firewall and on which
> I would like to run Samba and Apache. I am, however,
> able to connect to the Web when I plug directly into
> my DSL router, which is how I installed FreeBSD, so I
> know the NIC is working.
> 
> I know that I'm probably missing something glaringly
> obvious, but I can't seem to figure out what. I've
> also tried with Linux with the same results. Be happy
> to post netstat and/or route output if someone can
> steer me in the right direction.

Sounds like you didn't add a "defaultrouter="IP_FBSD_Machine"" into
your /etc/rc.conf. Depending on how you have things setup there may be
other settings. I have a static IP and specify my ISP's DNS servers in
resolv.conf.

Kent

> 
> Thanks in advance for the help,
> John Johnson
> 
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